Real Debate Wisconsin

Sick Days Make Me Sick

2009-07-14T11:16:00.003-05:00

Will everyone who reads this please respond back with how many sick days they get with their current employer?

I'll bet a lot of money that NOBODY is getting what the new City Administrator is getting.

Government Job: A Great Gig If You Can Get One.

Salmon in the Summer, Baby!

2009-07-14T10:44:00.004-05:00

This is what Wisconsin summer is all about! This photo is of a King Salmon at est. weight of 17lbs. Watch for this entry in the Big Fish Bash contest.

Biggest fish I ever caught? An 8 ounce blue gill.....

What a gas it must've been to bring this bad boy aboard! Congratulations, Noel!

Biggest Fish Tale Ever Told? Sen. Lehman and Rep. Mason's story about how the budget is good for taxpayers of Wisconsin. (No photo for that one, though.....)

Fill in the blank

2009-07-14T10:37:00.001-05:00

Prince Fielder______________________________.

Movie Quotes

2009-07-14T10:15:00.003-05:00

How many of the movies can you pick out without Googling?

1. Just kick back and let the big dog eat.

2. I got more legs than a bucket of chicken.

3. Look out boys and girls, it's Papa Smurf!

4. You're mocking me, aren't you?

5. You've got trouble coming.

6. Be sure you extend me the same courtesy.

7. Will you take a company check?

8. Nice manners babe!

9. Nobody said love was perfect.

10. Can I tell you my secret now?

Thanks for nothing Racine Unified.

2009-07-13T21:41:00.003-05:00

And the numbers are in. Racine Unified is cutting precisely nothing and increasing your property tax levy by 12.13% with no end in sight.

This is just another of the tax increases given to you by Jim Doyle, John Lehman Cory Mason and Bob Turner.

Kudos to Lisa at Caledonia Unplugged for being first on this.

No referendum Racine because they don't have to.

This school board did not even consider looking for cuts before they passed on a double digit tax increase. Everyone one of these school board members needs to go, as does Superintendent Shaw. This is how little your government cares for our struggles in this economy, government continues to grow off the backs of over-burdened taxpayers who can not afford any more.

Why is their no job growth? Because your government is sucking up all of your resources.

MRQ just had a hot flash

2009-07-13T18:13:00.012-05:00

Oh, to see that untucked shirt William Wordsworth Brewermode

I look at these photos and wonder what some Americans are thinking. Randy.

Coffee, like beer and doughnuts, is a wonderful, magical substance Trog

Grown men are weeping Amy.

Franken has quickly adapted to the Senate. He's doing pompous and leaden as if he'd lumbering along senatorially for decades. Althouse.

NUN’YA FREAKIN’ BIDNESS! Kate.

Post turtle. Kate.

only old white men could truly understand what the founders intended, right? Elliot.

an open manhole. logjam.

Rubbernecking. Jones.

I've never like radicals. Dr. Jon via TAB

brie eaters Fred

caught one thong Still Unreal

sights and smells. Aaron.

believe anything the dufus says. Silent E.

Love, Honor and Obey. Tom.

Skepticrats Trog.

Plumber's Crack. Trog.

Sometimes Chad pretty much says it all. Chad.

H.E.R.B.O.T. 5000 Kevin.

TRQ

I'm really manstural. I just had a hot flash. Jimi.

throws for Vikings Kevin.

IRONY: Democrats pushing progress from stem-cell research are now pushing Obamacare that will stop such progress cold. Tom.

All the pleasure, half the calories of your regular drinking club. Drinking Right.

killed three lobsters today. Jones. (Warning: Not a cheap date)

Algore is a putz. Asian Badger.

Back from Cub Scouts camp. Wigdy

cream city. Amy

Grilled buns Sarandipity.

tie Sara up with ropes. Hohner.

Long enough. Egg.

Considering drinking more...lots and lots more. Michael.

mine is stiff today Chris from Racine.

Chuck Norris played football in high school.. They won the super bowl. Nick Barnett

Chuck Norris doesn't need twitter, he's already following you. Ryan Grant.

Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas. Jessica

Coffey rules. Untuckem.

a 'lil crazy Emily.

I feel empty, fearful, and listless without a celebrity death to fixate on. Carrie.

I know I'm only out there because of your support. Ryan Braun.

can't remember what my wife said 5 min. ago. Gene.

Prince Fielder went to Denny's. He now has three career Grand Slams. Fraley.

Calls for more beer, or less beer...we'll try more. Heather.

Time to tinker Patrick.

good swing mojo KBCTour

Bill Hall is delusional. BrewCrewBabe

Wanna join the 9-foot-deep-end-of-the-pool club? DebsSweet

No, I am not Superman. Conrad.

I wonder if it works for money? Chelseytay

Seriously????

2009-07-13T15:50:00.001-05:00

Over the weekend I saw this headline:

Obama declares to Africa: End tyranny, corruption.

Yeah, this from the man who did so much to clean up Chicago politics.

Nothing

2009-07-13T15:02:00.001-05:00

War Heroes Need Not Apply....

2009-07-13T11:53:00.003-05:00

Apologizing in advance for the length of this post, I find it important to list each of the pertinent expenditures the state of Wisconsin (Democrats Jim Doyle and the Legislative Democrats who now run the show) has put in front of the needs of our Veterans.

Apparently, this Governor feels that an bicycle lanes and an opera house are more important than expanding our Veterans Home in Racine County. Priorities anyone?

$46,000 for recycling bins in the Town of Wrightstown (Represented by Democratic Rep. Ted Zigmunt from Francis Creek)
$500,000 to restore the Opera House in Oshkosh (Represented by Rep. Gordon Hintz, Democrat from Oshkosh)
$500,000 for an environmental center in Madison (Represented by Rep. Mark Pocan, a Madison Democrat, and Senator Mark Miller, a Monona Democrat)
$2 million in state dollars to plan a UW Madison School of Nursing that the school didn’t request or express a need for (Represented by Pocan and Miller)
$1.5 million for four-year old Kindergarten grants for the Madison School District, at a time other school districts are taking cuts
$100,000 for a Lake Koshkonong management study (Represented by Rep. Andy Jorgenson, a Democrat from Fort Atkinson)
$400,000 for bicycle lanes in Douglas County (Represented by Democratic Rep. Nick Milroy and Democratic Sen. Bob Jauch)
$108,000 for Plum City/Union Fire Department equipment and $60,000 for the Plum City School District while others take cuts (Represented by Democratic Rep. Chris Danou and Democratic Sen. Kathleen Vinehout)
$50,000 for Barron County Restorative Justice Programs (Represented by Democratic Rep. Mary Hubler and Democratic Rep. Bob Jauch)

…and the list goes on and on, totaling close to $35 million.

But we couldn't spare $2 million for our Vets. Amazing...........

Drinking Right Alert.

2009-07-13T09:06:00.002-05:00

Some people claim Summerfest to be the gem of the summer. Others, brie eaters, say that Bastille Days is the force de' triumph of the season. Some clowns will try to tell you that return of Circus Parade after a six year absence is the be all end all to important summer events.

Those of us in the know understand that at best any of those events would be the penultimate placeholder to the July edition of Drinking Right. Tuesday evening, 7 until Dickie throws us out, Papa's Social Club, 7718 W. Burleigh, Milwaukee.

Shocking Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Cri

2009-07-13T08:42:00.001-05:00

Yeah, it's all on the Republicans.

Institute for Truth in Accounting presents 'Passing the Bill'

2009-07-13T08:37:00.001-05:00

True 'Dat

Industrial Wind Turbine Shadow Flicker in Wisconsin 2008

2009-07-13T07:39:00.001-05:00

Funny, Obama or T. Boone Pickens never mentioned any of this.

Hat Tip to Badger Blogger.

Guess the number game, sU... edition

2009-07-11T11:14:00.003-05:00

Since we seem to be on a roll.
I will be extremely impressed if anyone happens to get this:

33 and 2

***UPDATE:
33 -- Number of womens underpants (as Mrs. sU... likes to call them) on stage after the Tom Jones concert on Friday nite - He caught one thong as it was about to hit him.
2 -- Number of womens skirts on stage after the concert

Guess the number,sU Edition:

2009-07-11T11:00:00.000-05:00

2,000 Trillion

***UPDATE: Cubic feet of natural gas estimated to be in the U.S.

Its not that I’m trying not to give the answer to Mr. Pants, he was – technically – wrong.
His answer of “Feet of natural gas we have in the US.” is a unit of length, not area.
So….. I will leave it up to the RDW pundits to decide.

Guess the number

2009-07-10T20:28:00.003-05:00

599,972

(not even the great Mr. Pelican Pants will get this one)

Update: Mr. Pelican Pants gets another one. Obama needs to appoint 599,972 more Czars to meet his campaign promise of 600,000 new jobs. (he has appointed 28 already)

Kudos Mr. Pelican Pants.

This is just wrong.

2009-07-10T19:04:00.001-05:00

Morgan Freeman To Marry His Step-Granddaughter E'Dena Hines?

Compare and Contrast

2009-07-10T18:36:00.001-05:00

Did you ever look at two headlines and just shake you head?

Ok, first look at this headline in the Eau-Claire Leader-Telegram. (an editorail written by a university educator)

University educators suffer most in budget.

Compare and contrast to this headline in the Journal Sentinel.

UW regents approve 5.5% tuition increase.

Perhaps the editorial writer would like to complain about their increase in this market to the people who have an even larger increase in costs or a decrease or loss on income.

Hey, U.S., apologize and get your journalists in line!

2009-07-10T08:57:00.004-05:00

This came out a couple hours ago. Hmmm. Some U.S. journalists were actually reporting on the real conditions in a Communist country. Time for the Big O to put his foot down (on the necks of the few U.S. journalists who tell the truth) so we don't offend our new friends.

The real reason...

2009-07-10T08:48:00.004-05:00

...why Palin stepped down.

Turns out she was running a homosexual prostitution ring from her own home.

Maybe the M.S.M. won't care since they missed it the first time around -- 4 years ago.

Question.

2009-07-09T22:19:00.002-05:00

I'd like to redesign RDW...

Can I have 18 million bucks?

Wanggaard to run against Lehman

2009-07-09T15:30:00.001-05:00

At 3:30 this afternoon Racine County Supervisor Van Wanggaard will announce his candidacy for the State Senate against 1 term Senator John Lehman.

This commercial ran during Van's run the Assembly two years ago. We wish Van well in his attempt to unseat Lehman. Lehman told us exactly who he was in his last race, a big spendging big taxing big government liberal.

The differences between these men could not be any more clear.

Van Wanggaard - Racine's Finest from Intrepid on Vimeo.

A Huge Bang for the Buck!

2009-07-09T13:11:00.003-05:00

I have to shake my head today at the creative genius behind the now notorious banner that was flown behind a plane over the city's 4th of July parade. When I first heard about the banner that stated Lehman and Mason's votes raised taxes I thought how expensive that must have been, and would there be enough bang for their buck on that kind of investment.....

Well, the free earned media they're receiving has certainly proven that this was probably the most inexpensive ad that is receiving the most coverage / exposure you could ever get on that dollar spent any other way in a campaign!

Now, if the Journal Times had put as much effort into finding out who contributes to One Wisconsin Now or any of the other government employee union shadow groups who regularly spend hundreds of thousands of dollars outright lying about a Republican candidate's votes and positions, imagine the real transparency and service they'd be giving us! (Whew, that's one kingsized run-on sentence....)

So, what's the crime they committed? Expressing their displeasure over a government they feel has run amok and is taxing its citizenry into oblivion. Sounds like it's pretty appropriate that the message they shared is in line with what Independence Day was all about. Of course, we've either forgotten our history, or we focus too much on the parade, candy, cookouts, and fireworks now instead. Our public education system and media have done a great job of softening the edges and encouraging apathy and ignorance on the part of our citizens when it comes to the real meaning of our holidays in this country. To them, Christmas = Santa; Easter = Candy; Memorial Day = Brats; Veteran's Day = Extra Paid Day Off. We know they've done a good job at it, because now there are mobilized groups working to take Christ out of Christmas.

Shouldn't the citizens be thanking the sponsors of the banner for reminding them what Independence Day was really all about? Only if they're criticizing Republicans, I guess.

Attention Racine Residents.

2009-07-09T13:01:00.001-05:00

If you live in the vicinity of 1019 Kingston, keep an eye out on your kids.

One trick donkey.

2009-07-09T11:01:00.004-05:00

Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.

Clue in, the rich does pay their fair share....

Now they should pay for health insurance for those who choose not to have it?